Pity our underprivileged president ...

[edelsont]

In the last week and change, something has come into clearer focus for me.  It's not really a new thought, but it's gotten much more vivid and concrete.  Namely: those of us who think Donald Trump is a lousy president tend to focus too much on his being bad, and not enough on his being incompetent.

Here's a thought experiment.  Imagine a child born on the same day that he was: June 14, 1946.  Imagine that child's genetic endowment, and his parents' personalities, to be the same as they were for the real Trump.  But imagine that family's economic status to have been lower middle class.

What would this child have become, 72 years later?  My best guess: a wino.

Assuming he even lived that long.